{"id":13733,"date":"2015-07-26T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T19:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=13733"},"modified":"2015-07-26T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T19:33:27","slug":"rural-tax-revaluation-bill-gates-and-subdivisions-more-important-than-agriculture-and-public-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/rural-tax-revaluation-bill-gates-and-subdivisions-more-important-than-agriculture-and-public-transportation.html","title":{"rendered":"Rural tax revaluation: Bill Gates and subdivisions more important than agriculture and public transportation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nDoes this\r\n\r\nrural land revaluation map<\/a>\r\nresemble the\r\n\r\nComprehensive Plan Future Development map<\/a>?\r\n\r\n\"Tax<\/a>\r\nWhy not?\r\nAnd why were rivers and public transportation not considered either\r\nby the Lowndes County Tax Assessors\r\nwhile tracts with road frontage were considered the\r\n“highest market area”<\/a>\r\nand\r\n land purchases by Bill Gates<\/a>\r\nwere considered\r\n“benchmark sales” instrumental in pricing large tracts<\/a>?\r\n

\r\nThis rural land revaluation is yet another vehicle to drive development straight north into the agricultural areas of the county, not even stopping at the Withlacoochee River.\r\n

\r\n\r\nThat way lies sprawl, which as Dr. Jeffrey H. Dorfman of UGA has said,\r\n“is a certain ticket to fiscal ruin* * Or at least big tax increases.”\r\n

\r\nThe City of Valdosta better watch out! Much of this\r\n\r\n rural revaluation is upstream from Valdosta, and clearcutting and impermeable surfaces would drive still more flood waters right into the city.\r\n

\r\n\"Greater<\/a>\r\nMany rural landowners were no doubt surprised to find their valuations almost or more than doubled, but that’s not the main issue.\r\nThe main issue is this revaluation ignored the Comprehensive Plan\r\nand any need to conserve agricultural land. If we wanted to live in\r\nAtlanta, we would. We don’t want every tree chopped down or every\r\nacre paved over in Lowndes County.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nFollow\r\n\r\nthis link<\/a> for much more.\r\n

\r\nThe first step to fixing this is for rural landowners to appeal\r\ntheir revaluation proposed by the\r\n\r\nTax Assessors<\/a>.\r\n

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